End Quote by Michelle Payne

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes,…

— Lee Trevino

I was such a goofy kid that, when I won things, people were like, 'Oh, when did that happen?'

— Kaetlyn Osmond

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was…

— Rowan Atkinson

Then we went across the line, and I was like 'Oh my god, we just won the Melbourne Cup.'

— Michelle Payne

The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.

— Devlin Hodges

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

— Dana Carvey

The boys, they are laughing: 'Oh, you are boxing. Very funny.' But I always challenge when people are laughing - 'I'll show you one…

— Mary Kom

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people…

— Lennon Parham

Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up;…

— Don Rickles

In eighth grade, when I was just the school weirdo, my drama teacher put me in a play, and we came up with a…

— Thomas Middleditch

What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something…

— Ronny Chieng

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and…

— Sandra Bernhard